Recent Submissions

We report on a rare northern Leopard's Kopje grave in Botswana of a male from a small settlement, who, nonetheless, was buried with nine pots and many trade beads. The set of whole and decorated pots with traces of the ...

The wide spread presence of Late Stone Age (LSA) and Early Iron Age (EIA) communities such as at the Tsodilo Hills, Matlapaneng, Serondela, Qogana, and other sites have been documented in Ngamiland, nofthwestetn Botswana ...

In and around the Makgadikgadi Pans there are several archaeological sites that have been interpreted as places were initiation rites took place in ancient times. But how can one tell they were initiation sites? This paper ...

This article demonstrates that while Adolf Hitler's Nazis were busy persecuting Jews in Germany there was an attempt made by the colonial authorities in Botswana, South Africa and Britain to settle some Jewish refugees in ...

Parsons, N.(Research and Development Unit, University of Botswana, http://www.ub.bw, 1997)

This article is about the way people of Tswana origin related with non Tswana speaking people and how they referred to them. It talks about how some of the non Tswana speaking people especially the Whites or Makgowa came ...

The Khoisan people are one of the indigenous peoples of Southern Africa.
Botswana has the greatest diversity of these autochthonous communities. As
ethnic minorities, they are characterized in the main by small ...

This article argues that the Kalahari desert region of the Kwena tribal reserve quietly slipped out of the imperial command from 1930–1950, at a time when British colonial authorities
achieved territorial control of the ...

This account of tribal finances in Bechuanaland Protectorate under British colonial rule argues that while the treasury dispensation made the tribes responsible for their finances,
it also brought about a new dynamic and ...

This discussion is a critical assessment of the role of cultural factors in promoting tourism in Botswana. From the 1990s, the Botswana Government’s policy on tourism focused on involving local community
participation in ...

The article is about the inter-war history of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, in which it was alleged that Tshekedi Khama, regent of the BaNgwato (1925-1949), was persecuting a small group of people for practicing Anglicanism, ...

The colonial and postcolonial experiences of Africans reflect the myriad changes which African societies have undergone over the last few centuries.
These include cultural, political and economic transformations mainly ...

Molefi, R.K.K.(University of Botswana, Research and Development Unit / http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/browse.cfm?colid=12, 2001)

This paper examines the responses of colonial governments to outbreaks of bubonic plague in the interior, particularly that of the Bechuanaland Protectorate (Botswana) administration. Bubonic plague first reached Southern ...

During the South African War of I899-I902 the Kgatla people and their leader, Linchwe I, became deeply involved in fighting on Britain's side against the Boers, and the history of their campaign helps in many ways to explain ...

For the last two decades, Botswana has had a reputation as a ‘country of immigration’,
based on the large-scale import of skilled expatriates from Africa,
Asia, and the West. This policy has been accompanied by a general ...

Although economic, political, ethnic and religious factors have led to regionalisms and other divides, causing civil strife and civil wars in many countries, in Botswana the north-south divide existed for a long time merely ...

Although economic, political, ethnic and religious factors have led to regionalisms and other divides, causing civil strife and civil wars in many countries, in Botswana the north south divide existed for a long time merely ...

This article documents key aspects of the role played by university students in Botswana in the liberation struggle, from the early years of the University in the mid-1960s to the year of Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980. ...

The aim of this paper is to present a background discussion on the impact of game reserve policy
on Bugakhwe, “River BaSarwa” (Bushmen/San people) in Eastern Ngamiland. The issues of
local community ownership and its ...

This essay examines, through taxation, the relationship between
British colonial administrators, Tswana Dikgosi (chiefs) and their subjects in the
Bechuanaland Protectorate from 1899 to 1957. It argues that since ...

This article is a modest sketch of
the historical background to the phenomenon of xenophobia, with which policymakers
in Botswana are grappling in the early twenty-first century. It is not, however, a historical treatise ...